What soul can be so sick which by thy songs

Attir'd in sweetness, sweetly is not driven

Quite to forget earth's turmoils, spites, and wrongs?

He greets Spring:

Sweet Spring, thou turn'st with all thy goodly train

Thy head with flames, thy mantle bright with flowers;

The zephyrs curl the green locks of the plain,

The clouds for joy in pearls weep down their showers.

Robert Blair (1746) sings in The Grave:

Oh, when my friend and I